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Artwork by Charmaine Barber

I want to get better

Me. Charmaine Barber. Age 56. I am not a shallow person and can be over-sensitive or go the other way and am hurtful without realising. Life is a challenge and art takes very little place in my life at the moment. I want it to have more place but I’m self-employed and sell Polish pottery instead.

I grew up in a caravan and then in a children’s home and then was left to my own devices. I tried to commit suicide. Not what I wanted or needed in my life. Several other things happened to me which I won’t go into detail about as they affect other people in my life. Then I managed to stop crying after 20 years and started to get my life straight after an extremely hard episode.

I have taken on the challenge of running a half marathon for the first time in my life. I am doing it for a friend who died of motor neurone disease in 2015, she was only in her mid forties. I’ve only started running in October last year. …

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Artwork by Luan Ricardo Friant

An artist looking for inspiration

My name is Luan Ricardo Friant, I am a self-taught student. I’ve been drawing for about 4 years and I’ve been painting for 3 years.
I’m Brazilian and I’m always doing my best to improve my knowledge, especially with the contrubuições of the great masters.

I work with oil painting, drawing charcoal and graphite. I have already participated in a collective exhibition in my city, Aracaju. I study Rembrandt’s techniques in a deeply personal way. Nowadays I study the realist school, I believe that life without art would have no purpose. …

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Oil Paintings by Erick Carrazco

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Born in Somoto, County of Madriz, Nicaragua Central America.
Art for me is my greatest passion, my way of communicating with the outside world.
My artistic challenges are to perfect my technique to achieve a better message to the world.

From art I want to learn to develop my ideas better to communicate them to the world. …

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Painting from Anet Louw

To live a childhood dream

I am a South African self-taught artist, who since childhood dreamed of becoming an artist. I stopped working full-time in 2006 in order to pursue this dream.

Art is my joy and life, art is also the way I can glorify my God.

I do struggle with applying the right colours, when should it be cool and when should it be warm. I do not have the financial means to take art lessons and learn as much as I can from Library Books and free on-line lessons. …

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Painting by Elena Kolmakova

I definitely can say, that art is my life

My name is Elena, and I’m from Moscow. My way to the art was very long. When I was a children, I liked to draw very much. And in school and then in the university I was drawing from time to time. But it was never serious, just for having pleasant time.

Though at the beginning I sold two of my works. Then almost 10 years I didn’t draw at all. And in 2011, when my baby had near 2 years, I found an art-studio and met a wonderful teacher Nikolai Pavlov, who taught me painting and the basics of academic drawing.

I studied there for several years, and around 2015 I began to try to sell my works through the Internet. Several times I wanted to quit it, but I did’t. I lasted thanks to the support of my beloved one, whose name is Wojtek. And now I alredy have several clients, who order paintings from time to time. And always come new clients. …